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discussed in biography

By the late 1950s Arnold’s most notable work had been in the science-fiction genre. In 1959, however, he directed the British production of Leonard Wibberley’s satirical novel
The Mouse That Roared and turned in a comic masterpiece, in no small part thanks to the talents of Peter Sellers. With that film’s success, Arnold never made another science-fiction movie. After...

role of Sellers

...character twice. He especially enjoyed disappearing into characters much older than himself (
The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957;
Battle of the Sexes, 1959) and playing multiple roles (
The Mouse That Roared, 1959). He did some of his best work for the Boulting Brothers in the late 1950s and early ’60s, notably his characterization of obstreperous union shop steward Fred Kite in...